Travel

Last year I went to the Rotterdam Summer Carnival to see the street parade. The weather was not fantastic, but it was better than the previous year because, in 2015, the weather conditions were so bad the street parade was cancelled. The street parade went ahead this year, but...

In August 2015, I went to Gouda for the penultimate cheese market of the year. This year, I returned on the 6th of April for the first market of the year. The weather was a little cooler and the sun was not shining so brightly as it was on...

Last year I wrote a blog post about the desks I left behind me in 2015. I’m doing the same this year. This blog is the closest thing I have to a diary and writing a post like this helps me remember what a lot of things I have...

I often visit Den Bosch. It’s not far from where I live and it’s an interesting place with lots to see and do. Whenever I go anywhere I tend to walk around a lot. Den Bosch is no exception and every time I go there I always find something...

There’s always something interesting happening at Rotterdam and Saturday night was no exception. Crowds of people gathered in the Schouwburgplein (Theatre Square) for the third Rotterdam Zombie Walk. In some cases, the quality of costumes and makeup was pretty basic, but the majority of Zombies had put a lot...

On Sunday I went to Den Bosch for the Boulevard Theater Festival and noticed something new in the marketplace—a tall tower made from cardboard boxes and sticky tape. A took a few pictures and didn’t give the matter much thought. A few hours later, I returned to the market...

I got an email this morning. It said FlixBus has taken over MegaBus. “The Networks are Unified”, it proclaimed, “Book now all Megabus routes on the FlixBus website!” I’ve used Megabus a few times. The last time was when I travelled from Barcelona to Amsterdam and the price was...

When I lived in Spain I liked to go to flamenco shows. Now I’m living in the Netherlands I go to festivals instead and there always seems to be so many to choose from. At the weekend there was a festival called Duizel in het Park in Rotterdam. It...

It was Summer Carnival time in Rotterdam at the weekend. I’d never been to a carnival before, so the temptation was too great to resist. You may have heard that carnival is popular in the Netherlands, and this is true, but I should probably point out traditional Dutch carnival...

Three weeks ago I visited Nijmegen. I returned yesterday because I wanted to go to The Valkhof Festival. The town was much busier than it was on my previous visit and it wasn’t just because of the music festival. Every year in July Nijmegen hosts the International Four Day...